Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need: Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem
Art-based activities can help to develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress, trauma and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions. This accessible book will be of great use to health and education practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines who are involved in working with troubled children and young people.
Fly High Fun Grammar complements the Fly High series and can be used in class or for homework. It includes: • clear and simple explanations for all the grammar points in the Pupil's Book • a variety of practice activities, with constant recycling • further exploitation of songs from the Pupil's Book • games and role play activities • regular Reviews The accompanying audio CD includes the grammar explanations, songs and example dialogues for the speaking activities.
Kids Celebrate! Activities for Special Days Throughout the Year
Children love learning about special days and celebrating them with arts and crafts. Skipping the typical green shamrocks, orange paper pumpkins, and red doily hearts, Kids Celebrate! lists 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grown-ups. Theres a Hansel and Gretel walk for Jakob Grimms birthday, a Mexican fiesta for Cinco de Mayo, and a first aid kit to make in honor of Clara Bartons Birthday. The significance of each special day is explained in this educational tribute to the holidays, history, and accomplishments of many cultures and many people.
These simple play-based photocopiable activities are ideal for parents who want to help their child improve his or her language skills. Each stand-alone worksheet has been designed for use in the home environment. Activities are linked directly to the 36 school-based sessions in the companion volume Language Development: Circle Time Sessions to Improve Communication Skills. This spiral bound book includes photocopiable worksheets, exciting visual prompts for children and parents, and easy to use assessment grids to help parents and teachers monitor progress.
Challenges Galore: Vocabulary Building Puzzles Grades 5-8+
The purpose of this activity book is to provide teachers and students with a wide range of challenging and motivational vocabulary activities that are different and fun to do. These activities are intended to be used by themselves or to complement existing language programs by providing activities that win require students to work independently or with a partner to problem solve, learn and apply strategies, think and have fun.
